The Night Land, abridged edition (MIT Press / Radium Age)
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- Synopsis
- A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension—but love leads on.In the far future, humankind&’s survivors huddle below Earth&’s frozen surface in a pyramidal fortress-city that, for centuries now, has been under siege by loathsome &“Ab-humans,&” enormous slugs and spiders, and malevolent &“Watching Things&” from another dimension. When our unnamed protagonist receives a telepathic distress signal from a woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he&’d once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission—into the fiend-haunted Night Land!&“Like certain rare dreams,&” C. S. Lewis wrote of Hodgson&’s masterpiece, The Night Land can give &“sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.&” H. P. Lovecraft agreed that this is &“one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.&”William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English poet, sailor, bodybuilder, and weird fiction pioneer whose horror, fantastic, and proto-sf novels—in addition to The Night Land—include The Boats of the &“Glen Carrig&” (1907), The House on the Borderland (1908), and The Ghost Pirates (1909). He also wrote stories in the Sargasso Sea series, the Captain Gault series, and a series about the occult detective Carnacki.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262376068
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780262546423
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/15/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Horror, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- Erik Davis